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Please indicate whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the author of the text.
A. Crew, David F. Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945. Pp. 1-62
1. Recent research has a tendency to link the Nazi era to other periods in German history.
2. Class conflict was an essential element in the relationship between workers and the Nazi party.
3. Full employment made workers less resistant to Nazi system.
4. Labor unions or at least small fractions were able to survive despite Nazi prosecution.
5. The Nazis achieved a fragmentation of interests among the workers.
6. Social racism describes the Nazi policy to send workers who „lacked“ work ethics to a camp.
7. The Nazis provided free cruises fort he workers, a fact that has been neglected in past research
8. A non-class identity is an identity that cannot be associated with a traditional class thinking, e.g. by workers.
9. The influx of foreign workers during the war challenged the position of the German worker.
10. The majority of German workers sympathized with the plight of the foreign workers in Germany.
11. German workers were hardly involved in war crimes.
12. German workers that were not drafted as soldiers enjoyed an improvement of working and living conditions.
13. During the war at the home front class identity was replaced by communities of fate
14. Overall however, the Nazis were not able to break old class structures.
15. The Nazis managed to ban females from public life during the period of 1933-1945.
16. In the private industry females were appreciated for their physical and mental characteristics.
17. In concentration camp there were cases were women treated other women with extreme cruelty.
18. For some females, the time in the League of German Girls could also be viewed as a time of personal growth.
19. The larges amount of support fort he Nazi party in the 1933 elections came from big business.
20. During the Nazi are, the German Mitteltand gained prestige whereas the peasantry suffered economic troubles.
21. WWII destroyed the traditional structures of village life.
22. The modernity the Nazis promoted in Germany can only be assessed correctly if you detach it from racial ideology.
23. THE Nazi Party was successful in establishing a functioning Volksgemeinschaft.
24. The first six essays in the book demonstrate how ordinary citizen used their personal agenda to contribute to the extend of the Nazi power.
25. The last three essays in the book demonstrate that racism was not able to break up collective identities.
26. Omer Bartov's article properly depicts the mentalities of the largest part of Germans during the war.
27. Bartov claims in his article that researchers in the past have mingled social and military history in order explain the behavior of the working class.
28. According to Bartov the general moral in the German Armed Forces started to disintegrate in July of 1944, right after the failed Hitler assassination.
29. According to Bartov, the youth was a group that retained their courage to fight until the end.
B. Jill Nelmes. Introduction to Film Studies , pp. Xvii-22 and pp. 61-89, 149-152
30. Most popular films are usually also the most innovative films.
31. The monolithic idea of an audience is a true assumption films should be based upon.
32. Film studies in its beginning as an academic discipline borrowed from the field of linguistics.
33. At the micro level we encounter the narrative.
34. Striking shots usually violate established conventions.
35. The term „film“ evades a definite definition.
36. Film is a wonderful medium to question our relationship with the material world, space, time, and consciousness.
37. Film history and interpretation is subject to new approaches as time passes by.
38. A metanarrative is a big, all comprehensive story where all elements have a fixed place.
39. A transition from traditional narrative to postmodern can be witnessed in films.
40. Postmodern film tries to break up the distinction between past and present.
41. A mise-en-film indicates what is filmed but not how it is filmed.
42. Both movement image and time image support the narrative in films.
43. A film is a mixture between a story told and a drama.
44. A close-up in the memory of the viewer can be far more important than the entire narrative of a film.
45. Femme fatales are usually shown in high-key lightening in the film noir.
46. There are seven shot categories in shot scales
47. The camera knows five basic types of mobility.
48. Editing designates the process of joining together separate parts of a film
49. A juxtaposition between one shot and the next may be presented by a fade.
50. A pitch technique can be observed in Jaws during the shark attack.
